carlos

Japan may have been ahead of the curve on the photo ID part, but since then has greatly lagged in actual use of credit cards. The "prophecy" of a cashless society has made great strides in countries other than Japan, while Japan has stayed in the relative past. I can think of no other country where it'd be perfectly normal for individuals to carry around such large sums of cash on a regular basis (which also speaks to how absurdly safe it is in Japan).

Not that there's anything wrong with staying in the past...these ads just make for a quite amusing juxtaposition. Well done.